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Why the hell am I still struggling to read 2 column PDFs on my phone?

Academia and the publishers have had 15+ years of SmartPhones now, and they still haven't come up with a phone friendly format to publish and distribute academic research.

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Nothing today signifies how fucked our serious academic knowledge generating and dissemination system has become, than that I'm still trying to read 2 column PDFs on my phone.
How have we STILL not invented & adopted a phone friendly format for academic papers and research? https://t.co/MSQkmc04lW
— phil jones (he/him - ele) @interstar@artoot.xyz (@interstar) May 28, 2024

Nothing today signifies how fucked our serious academic knowledge generating and dissemination system has become, than that I'm still trying to read 2 column PDFs on my phone. How have we STILL not invented & adopted a phone friendly format for academic papers and research?